If I'm smug, it's because I realize that like the rest of you, I also know nothing. I just stopped holding myself above all the lower life forms who aren't into the same tech as me.
I'm tired of all the stupid "clever" crap, all the trying to be funny or "insightful". Slashdot can go eat a dick. I'm done.
You forgot Win + M, which minimizes all windows. Similar to show desktop, except the rest stay minimized when you restore one of the windows. It can cause thrashing when you restore things though, since most apps release a lot of memory when minimized. Show Desktop is just a z-order hack so it doesn't do that.
> The only thing missing is a built-in shortcut to open a command prompt.
Use PS Hot Launch. Gives you as many of those keys as you want. I can't deal with a windows machine that doesn't have that and WinMover.
I'll see your anecdote and raise you one: Vista is more responsive than XP was for me.
Gosh, aren't we a bunch of proud nerds, applying the scientific method in such objective empirical fashion. You think to actually hold us above the unwashed masses with their "calvin-pissing-on chevy/ford" stickers? Think again.
> but Diablo really doesn't do anything that Angband doesn't.
This is supposed to be the part where we bow down to your superior taste, right? You, um, go ahead and rock on with Angband. Clearly we're just unworthy mass-market sheeple beneath your attention.
> I can't help but wonder, were MAngband better known, if Diablo would be as popular.
Probably more popular, actually. Halo effect (no, not the game).
People are more interested in deep characters that actually react to their actions and are interesting to interact with
Ten million World of Warcraft players say you're wrong.
madly clicking the mouse in all directions should not be considered fun
Yet it is to many people. Do you really think your other games are in some way more meaningful in an even slightly bigger picture, let alone the grand scheme of things?
Why don't you just code up a 10K or so win32 app where you click the mouse over a square and every 20,000 clicks or so it plays a sound and a message telling you which rune you got?
Some of us like a little more backstory pretense to our mindless clicking.
By "finish", he meant "play the exact same game three times". Hell difficulty was seriously buffed in 1.10, so you had to either have one of a few uber-builds or grind for gear forever.
Kind of like another Blizzard game, dontcha think?
by doing this, would that be leaving those IE6-based security issues open on your computer, even if you don't surf with IE?
Some of them, yes. IE is the handler for a lot of obscure and vulnerable file types, and there have been auto-execute exploits against firefox in the past that depended on these types being auto-executed by IE.
In practice, I've never seen an attack in the wild that takes advantage of such a blended threat.
So in two more weeks, 165% of firefox users will be at version 3. Let's see the numbers after 18 months.
Anyway, my work machine still has IE6, because they're not bothering to upgrade it on the corporate servers and I use nothing but Firefox on it anyway.
Actually the best potential feature of a two-page reader is that the alternate screen could refresh while I'm reading the current one. eBook readers do a nasty all-black flicker before refresh.
Of course the whole point of an eBook reader is to have a nice form factor, which is really defeated by doubling the size and weight for a screen you'll only pay attention to half the time. I suspect the research will simply go into e-Ink displays with better refresh times.
One of the key reasons why I like reading eBooks is that I DON'T have to flip pages. I can use a scroll wheel or a button to flip, instead.
You must mean eBooks on an LCD. No way you're going to like using a scroll wheel on an e-Ink display. The Sony Reader is beautiful, but it takes a full second to refresh.
Unless that C++ program was statically linked, it's ridiculously unlikely a 20 year old binary will still run. Even then, some kernels don't even bother supporting a.out at all.
Hell, even Windows doesn't run a good chunk of 20 year old code, especially not Vista.
The force from a F5 tornado will lift your indestructable dome house off the foundation and carry it to Oz. The structural integrity of the thing is pretty irrelevant at that point. I do imagine it does pretty well against hurricanes, though it's water that does most of the damage, and domes have a whole LOT of joints to seal.
Now they can be subpoenaed as a material witness against the Executive, and they'll enjoy far less protections against their having to produce evidence. No fifth amendment protections for one, since it couldn't incriminate them.
Not that this will actually happen, but it's a nice fantasy.
"Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you've got." - attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Doesn't sound anything like him. Mark Twain perhaps.
Thing is, most of the "smaller government" people want government out of the places they want their private craven, corrupt, superstituous, hateful ideologies to rule instead. They consider it "judicial activism" when the courts say that government should stay out of proscriptive definitions of marriage, for example.
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If I'm smug, it's because I realize that like the rest of you, I also know nothing. I just stopped holding myself above all the lower life forms who aren't into the same tech as me.
I'm tired of all the stupid "clever" crap, all the trying to be funny or "insightful". Slashdot can go eat a dick. I'm done.
Teledildonics. Mmm.
You forgot Win + M, which minimizes all windows. Similar to show desktop, except the rest stay minimized when you restore one of the windows. It can cause thrashing when you restore things though, since most apps release a lot of memory when minimized. Show Desktop is just a z-order hack so it doesn't do that.
> The only thing missing is a built-in shortcut to open a command prompt.
Use PS Hot Launch. Gives you as many of those keys as you want. I can't deal with a windows machine that doesn't have that and WinMover.
All you're good for is nerd rage. You can't even think any more.
I'll see your anecdote and raise you one: Vista is more responsive than XP was for me.
Gosh, aren't we a bunch of proud nerds, applying the scientific method in such objective empirical fashion. You think to actually hold us above the unwashed masses with their "calvin-pissing-on chevy/ford" stickers? Think again.
Sandvine sends RST packets to both ends, so this recipe will will only be effective if both sides cooperate.
Sandvine will now keep just enough state to forge FIN packets instead.
> but Diablo really doesn't do anything that Angband doesn't.
This is supposed to be the part where we bow down to your superior taste, right? You, um, go ahead and rock on with Angband. Clearly we're just unworthy mass-market sheeple beneath your attention.
> I can't help but wonder, were MAngband better known, if Diablo would be as popular.
Probably more popular, actually. Halo effect (no, not the game).
People are more interested in deep characters that actually react to their actions and are interesting to interact with
Ten million World of Warcraft players say you're wrong.
madly clicking the mouse in all directions should not be considered fun
Yet it is to many people. Do you really think your other games are in some way more meaningful in an even slightly bigger picture, let alone the grand scheme of things?
Why don't you just code up a 10K or so win32 app where you click the mouse over a square and every 20,000 clicks or so it plays a sound and a message telling you which rune you got?
Some of us like a little more backstory pretense to our mindless clicking.
By "finish", he meant "play the exact same game three times". Hell difficulty was seriously buffed in 1.10, so you had to either have one of a few uber-builds or grind for gear forever.
Kind of like another Blizzard game, dontcha think?
by doing this, would that be leaving those IE6-based security issues open on your computer, even if you don't surf with IE?
Some of them, yes. IE is the handler for a lot of obscure and vulnerable file types, and there have been auto-execute exploits against firefox in the past that depended on these types being auto-executed by IE.
In practice, I've never seen an attack in the wild that takes advantage of such a blended threat.
So in two more weeks, 165% of firefox users will be at version 3. Let's see the numbers after 18 months.
Anyway, my work machine still has IE6, because they're not bothering to upgrade it on the corporate servers and I use nothing but Firefox on it anyway.
Or god forbid, grow the hell up and use an actual Microsoft logo.
> I don't understand why people use such over-rated PSUs. I guess it is just a dick-sizing thing.
No, it's a gamer thing. Try running SLI 9800's sometime, you need like 800 watts. That's gotta really spin the meter.
ATI's current 4800 series cards consumes something like half that. Smaller dies are nice.
I'm perfectly happy letting you have the last word, so go ahead and savor your little, um, victory.
Masterful riposte there mister RNC.
> But willful ignorance of obvious facts is never admirable.
It is, however, a job requirement for a cabinet position the Bush administration.
Call the OP what he is: a liar.
Actually the best potential feature of a two-page reader is that the alternate screen could refresh while I'm reading the current one. eBook readers do a nasty all-black flicker before refresh.
Of course the whole point of an eBook reader is to have a nice form factor, which is really defeated by doubling the size and weight for a screen you'll only pay attention to half the time. I suspect the research will simply go into e-Ink displays with better refresh times.
One of the key reasons why I like reading eBooks is that I DON'T have to flip pages. I can use a scroll wheel or a button to flip, instead.
You must mean eBooks on an LCD. No way you're going to like using a scroll wheel on an e-Ink display. The Sony Reader is beautiful, but it takes a full second to refresh.
> C++ inherited the weaknesses and the strengths of C++
Huh. Must have been using the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern.
Unless that C++ program was statically linked, it's ridiculously unlikely a 20 year old binary will still run. Even then, some kernels don't even bother supporting a.out at all.
Hell, even Windows doesn't run a good chunk of 20 year old code, especially not Vista.
The force from a F5 tornado will lift your indestructable dome house off the foundation and carry it to Oz. The structural integrity of the thing is pretty irrelevant at that point. I do imagine it does pretty well against hurricanes, though it's water that does most of the damage, and domes have a whole LOT of joints to seal.
> no alternative.
No other alternative, right?
But hey dude, there are two knobs on your radio. Not that you'd have any familiarity with anything with two knobs on it...
Now they can be subpoenaed as a material witness against the Executive, and they'll enjoy far less protections against their having to produce evidence. No fifth amendment protections for one, since it couldn't incriminate them.
Not that this will actually happen, but it's a nice fantasy.
"Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you've got." - attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Doesn't sound anything like him. Mark Twain perhaps.
Thing is, most of the "smaller government" people want government out of the places they want their private craven, corrupt, superstituous, hateful ideologies to rule instead. They consider it "judicial activism" when the courts say that government should stay out of proscriptive definitions of marriage, for example.